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Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
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Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 29 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
based on 5 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for sadistic torture and sexual abuse, nudity, language and strong sexual dialogue - all involving children

Starring Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker, Daniel Manche, William Atherton, Graham Patrick Martin, Benjamin Ross Kaplan, Austin Williams, and Madeline Taylor

Based on the best-selling novel by Jack Ketchum, this film deals with the fictionalized account of the 1965 true story of Sylvia Likens's brutal torture, rape and abuse in the basement of a family member's Indiana home. (Moderncine)


GENRE(S): Drama  |  Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Jack Ketchum (book)
Philip Nutman
Daniel Farrands
 
DIRECTED BY: Gregory Wilson  
RELEASE DATE: Theatrical: October 3, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Neither Ketchum nor the filmmakers take an exploitative approach to the material; their focus is the way the youngsters' petty cruelty erupts into murderous sadism.
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40
Film Threat Phil Hall
The result is a great-looking bore.
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30
The New York Times Neil Genzlinger
Gregory M. Wilson, the film’s director, has made the kind of movie that makes you wish you could rinse your brain in bleach, to wash all traces of it from your memory.
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20
Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
Any resonance from that real-life atrocity gets smothered by a script that interlaces clichéd dialogue so tightly as to block out any glint of recognizable human behavior.
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12
New York Post V.A. Musetto
If there is anything positive in The Girl Next Door, it is the brave performance by Auffarth, who is in her early 20s. Other than that, there's little reason to see the movie. Unless, of course, you get off on watching the sexual exploitation of underage girls.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Joe F. gave it a0:
Irresponsibly exploitive and feebly made. Only harry potter abuses its child actors more.

Doug M. gave it a10:
This movie is not an easy one to watch, but it is just as gripping and disturbing as the book, and blance baker as ruth was phenomenal.

John E. gave it a10:
Don't listen to stodgy critics - this film is a powerhouse on all levels. Terrifying and tragic, it sucker punches the viewer and leaves him with a film experience he'll never forget.

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